Dr Rashid is a faculty member in the School of Computing & Mathematics, Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University (CSU). He received his PhD in Computer Science from University Technology Malaysia (Malaysia) in 2011. He also received his M.S in Computer Science (by research) from the same university in 2005. Earlier, he did his M.S (Information Technology) and M.S (Statistics) from Preston University (Pakistan) and University of the Punjab (Pakistan) in 2003 and 1999 respectively. He is the author of various articles and serving as member of editorial board and reviewers in international journals and conferences. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. His areas of interest are Vehicular & Mobile Ad Hoc Network (Architectures, Protocols, Security, and Algorithms), Mobile Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Communications, and High Performance Computing.